From: Janos Laube <janos.dev@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:26:25 GMT
Subject: Re: [msysGit] Re: [PATCH 01/14] Fix non-constant array creation
Message-ID: <9d6091530908210926p61aa5ea6ya6a7b71f940fdf5a@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4A8EA53B.9080809@gmail.com>

> MSVC compiles regex.c, so it must handle it. I'm fine with that.

msvc supports alloca, but regex.c doesn't make use of it per default
(you must define HAVE_ALLOCA_H in order to use it). basically _alloca
is fine for that task, but be aware that error handling on windows is
a bit compilicated. when _alloca fails it throws a structured
exception, you must reset the stack and use traditional memory
allocation as fallback. see
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/wb1s57t5.aspx. :-)

janos